Macedonia is a city in northern Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 12,168 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb in the Akron metropolitan area.
At a Glance
- County: Summit County
- State: Ohio
History of Macedonia
The city’s name is said to derive from a small joke among divinity students at Western Reserve College, which in the early 19th century was in Hudson, Ohio. The students, who were called upon to preach in the small hamlet 6 miles (10 km) to the north, recalled a bible passage, Acts 16:10: "…we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them."
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Macedonia, Ohio, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.